Build a wall to keep pig4bill out.

Probably doesn't even need to be that tall

Hi guys. I've alienated all my real life friends so I'm back!

Fyp

Welcome back

When you’re fully caffeinated but the late night tourney didn’t run, you end up making either awesomely pointless and or pointlessly awesome posts, but you can’t decide which.

I blame the west coast crowd for having better things to do than play tourneys.

Enjoyed your shot taking blog. Hand histories and player descriptions were hilarious.

Not all of them.

A few years ago, my now 16 year old cousin was referring to his "friends" without any qualifier of "real life," nor "online." So I asked, "Do you kids nowadays differentiate between real life friends and online friends?" He simply replied, "nope."

With that in mind, welcome back Jesse.

Welcome back, Jesse. I came back too.

Reading some old Jesse blog posts and he's lamenting "how could I ever do that?" i.e. play 8000 hours...

I just can't imagine ever feeling that way.

Jesse, I really enjoyed your blog too. Welcome back.

I was skimming through Jesse's blog, first time in years, and re-reading some old hands we played. First thought, wtf was I doing?

If you guys liked Jesse's blog, maybe you will enjoy mine. I have recently started posting about my sessions and my real life friends all seem to really like the content. I play lower stakes and I won't pretend to be as funny or clever as Jesse, but I think it's pretty good stuff:

LHE with Friends

Marathon Monday: A 16 Hour Session

$20/$40 Session Report

Three Crazy $20/$40 Hands

PLO Wednesday!

$8/$16 @ Palace: I'm Blessed!

$1/$3 PLO Session

Thanks for all the props, guys. I read some of the stuff and cringe, honestly. But whatever. It's a miracle I survived

I will now post of Jon lockes greatness

I read my posts from circa 2012 and I'm tempted to delete them they are so embarrassing... but alas... showing growth and all that.

I love sliding a cold $80 into the pot.

I played with overs buttons the other day for the first time in years. Delightful

omg overs

It's been a long time since I've seen those in play either.

The Palace in Lakewood, WA is a glorious (though far from glamorous) place. I sit down with an Overs button as my card protector and hope other people will ask for one.

Expert

The Oaks 15-30 allowed Overs buttons when the 30-60 wasn't going. Overs buttons are awesome.

There are few better feelings than that of being seated in the game and having one of the notorious live ones tossing a button in your direction. It's like they want you to take their money.

Alas, the 15-30 has pretty much died, although the 30-60 continues to go strong. (I wonder how sustainable the game is, because it is such a large gap between 6-12 and 30-60. It is pretty much impossible for someone to move up through the ranks to the big game. (I have always wondered about the general sustainability of the Oaks 30-60 game, but it seems to have a player pool of its own to draw upon, independent of the rest of the club.)

My local casino is spreading a 15/30 LHE next week for the first time in the 5+ years I've been coming here.

The only time I've played overs is an 8/16 game in a room that once in a blue moon has a bigger game and the 8/16 game even struggles to go.

I've found that normally loose players tighten up when the overs are activated. Makes me think it isn't as valuable as others think. Obviously that is on a case by case basis, but those are my results.

There was a time when the game changed to $12/$24 before the flopif everyone had Overs - but still with $8/$16 blind structure - and it absolutely killed the action.

Now, its $8/$16 pre and $12/$24 post and it's obviously way better. I don't think it hurts the action in general but there are almost certainly some players that tighten up.

Oaks overs buttons we're optional iirc, so I never took one (meaning if you didn't remember to bet more, your bet stood at the regular size)